This should be obviously false before you even start looking into the specifics. Do you think if everyone in the US just made different choices everyone would

This should be obviously false before you even start looking into the specifics. Do you think if everyone in the US just made different choices everyone would be millionaires in a generation? No? Then your advice doesn't work. Without a massive increase in productivity, the only way someone can be a millionaire is if other people are poor.